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...custom of jubilee years dates back to ancient Judaism; the Book of Leviticus decreed that "You shall hallow the fiftieth year" by pardoning debts and freeing slaves. With a more spiritual idea of liberation in mind, the Roman Catholic Church began its tradition of Holy Years in 1300; eventually they came to be celebrated fairly regularly every 25 years. As in past Holy Years, pilgrims to Rome who visit St. Peter's and three other basilicas-St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major and St. Paul Outside the Walls-will receive a papal plenary indulgence: full remission of any temporal...
...while the world burns; the Vatican still clings tenaciously to its medieval "canonization" process, whatever that term means today. Relics, miracles wrought in the name of the person considered for sainthood, etc., ad infinitum, all seem embarrassingly anachronistic. When will the Vatican face up to vital issues threatening the Roman communion? Why does Pope Paul carefully avoid issues like celibacy for diocesan clergy and ordination of women to the priesthood...
Resentments between traditionalists and those who advocate freer scriptural interpretation helped to cause schism a year ago among Southern Presbyterians in the U.S. The Roman Catholic Church is increasingly beset by similar quarrels. Last March, Bishop James Rausch, a progressive who is general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, publicly censured several conservative columnists who had questioned the orthodoxy of some current U.S. Catholic biblical scholarship...
...Bible is being called as witness in other kinds of current ecclesiastical debate. Both Jesus' selection of his Apostles?all men?and St. Paul's restrictive remarks about women ("It is shameful for a woman to speak in church") are cited by Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and Missouri Synod Lutherans as precedents that forbid female clergy. On a quite different level, Gospel polemics against the Jews still help to nourish a residual anti-Semitism in Sunday-school and catechism classes...
...biblical controversy today, for he represents millions of Christians and Jews. His concern is a basic, agonizing one for any believer: How do you preserve faith in the Bible in a world that seems increasingly faithless? For Protestants it is an especially poignant question. Besides the Scriptures, Roman Catholics have the authority of tradition, Jews the guidance of the Talmud. But Protestantism bases its faith on the Bible alone. Its truth is essential; if the Bible falls, faith topples...